AFKBRBChocolate

@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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AFKBRBChocolate,

I still have my presidential physical fitness award. I’m old, mine is signed by Nixon. It’s a very official looking certificate with a patch that I put under the glass in the frame. Back when I used to hang my work awards on my office wall, I used to have that one in with them. Most people didn’t ever notice, but every once in a while someone would be looking at them and I could always see the exact moment they realized what it was.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I’m not sure I agree, the diameter of the trunk isn’t significantly different from the diameter of the branches. If it were split, the branches should be half as wide.

I think what happened is that the beginning of the turd was the top of the trunk, and it broke where the end of the lower-right branch is. You can see that it broke at an angle. Then the remaining part came out and that angled bit is where the left branch attaches to the trunk. I think it landed there in it’s soft/warm state and merged together at that point. You can see that the color of the top of the left branch is the same as the end of the right branch, then transitions to lighter.

And that’s as much turd analysis as I want to do today.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Closer to the heat element though, so a lot of plastics are top rack only

AFKBRBChocolate,

Looks great!

Just FYI, this really isn’t charcuterie though. Charcuterie is specifically about prepared meats. You can have other stuff on a charcuterie board, but normally just some things to compliment the meats.

On the other hand, so many people have been misusing the word for a while now that the definition is starting to accommodate arrangements like yours.

Yummy regardless of what it’s called.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I have never seen kumquats in the store. We have a small tree, so we get more than we need and I’m unlikely to buy any, but I’ve never seen them.

Also, is that typical of the way they look where you are? Ours look like these.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I came here to say I think it’s funny that in 1994 Larson drew the gun rights alien with a red baseball hat.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Somehow it makes the face look strangely human

AFKBRBChocolate,

There’s “sonder,” which is “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Not quite the same, but sort of borders on it.

AFKBRBChocolate,

For a lot of sushi, the chefs will be disappointed in you even for putting soy sauce on it. They craft it to have a specific combination of flavors, and strong sauces just obliterate them.

AFKBRBChocolate, (edited )

Sweet and sour sauce? No.

AFKBRBChocolate, (edited )

There are quite a number of good articles on the subject if you want a thorough answer, but some of the main things are:

  • He’s responsible for a massive deregulation of financial institutions that were a precursor to the Wall Street issues that led to the giant government bailout.
  • He pushed “trickle down economics,” which is the theory that if you cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, they’ll succeed more and create more jobs so that everyone wins. This is something conservatives always push and it’s always a horrible failure that results in a bigger and bigger income gap.
  • He funded his big tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) by slashing federal assistance programs, including low income housing subsidies and mental health support, resulting in an unprecedented surge in homelessness that we’re still wrestling with today.
  • Nancy Reagan was the “Just say no to drugs” lady - the figurehead of the largely failed war on drugs which was like trying to prevent teen pregnancy with an abstinence only education program.

There’s a lot more, but those are some of the big ticket items.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I almost added a bullet about killing unions, but it was hard to know where to stop. He also wasn’t great for the environment, but I think it’s generally accepted that he wasn’t the environmental train wreck that people thought he’d be.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Not sure it has a “correct” name. I grew up having it called “egg in a hole,” but depending on where you’re from there are different names. I know people who call it “egg in a nest.” Wikipedia says:

There are many names for the dish, including “bullseye eggs”, “eggs in a frame”, “egg in a hole”, “eggs in a nest”, “gashouse eggs”, “gashouse special”, “gasthaus eggs”, “hole in one”, “one-eyed Jack”, “one-eyed Pete”, “one-eyed Sam”, “pirate’s eye”, and “popeye”.[7][8][9][10] The name “toad in the hole” is sometimes used for this dish,[7] though that name more commonly refers to sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter.

AFKBRBChocolate, (edited )

I believe that’s for comments that are newer than ten minutes (same maybe also unread?).

AFKBRBChocolate,

I’ve long had a theory that cats have evolved to be just cute enough that we don’t murder them. Cats are evil, so it’s understandable that humans would want to kill them, and I think we probably did early on, but some of them were so cute that we didn’t. Those surviving cute cats reproduced and made more cute cats, but they also became more evil. Over generations, we have created beings that are supremely evil, but they’re just so gosh darned cute that we let them get away with it.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Probably echoing what others have said, but here’s an article with a salient section:

With all these disadvantages, and hardly any advantages to speak of, you might be wondering if hiccups serve a purpose at all. Well, some scientists have argued in the affirmative.

They point to the fact that even human fetuses hiccup, long before they’re born. In fact, the diaphragmatic spasms are more common in infants than in adults. It’s possible that this reflex helps prevent fetuses from breathing in amniotic fluid while still in the womb; likewise, it could prevent newborns from choking on milk while breastfeeding.

And still others have proposed that hiccuping in the womb trains a fetus’ respiratory muscles for all the breathing they will have to do after birth.

But humans aren’t the only animals that hiccup; pretty much any species that breathes exclusively air — including all mammals — can suffer the same fate. (Birds and reptiles, on the other hand, get a free pass.)

In fact, that’s the reasoning behind another theory, which posits that hiccups are merely an evolutionary “leftover” in mammals, dating all the way back to our fishy ancestors. When these species transitioned from gill-based breathing in the water to lung-based breathing on land, while still possessing both organs, a breathing system that allowed them to quickly close the glottis and direct water only to the gills was beneficial.

We see a similar process play out on a smaller scale when tadpoles grow up and transition into frog-hood. And that may not be a coincidence; believe it or not, the neural patterning that generates a hiccup in humans is almost identical to the neural patterning involved in respiration in amphibians.

AFKBRBChocolate,

The timeline of Egyptian history is so wild. The span of time between this pyramid being built and the founding of Rome is longer than the time between Plato and Aristotle and now. There’s 1,100 years between this pyramid and King Tut. There’s 800 years between this pyramid and mammoths going extinct. And this isn’t the oldest pyramid.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Is that the video you meant to link?

AFKBRBChocolate,

Is that an OSHA approved hand over the face to keep from breathing the poisonous gas?

I’m kind of surprised it’s not hot enough to boil off all the water in that little bucket pretty quickly, bit obviously it isn’t.

AFKBRBChocolate,

I’m a software engineer, not a physicist, but I’m not sure that makes sense for this. Heat does transfer much more quickly in oil than water, so it can cool something off more quickly, but oil can also get way hotter than water. That little bucket isn’t going to hold enough for a lot of thermal mass, so it’s pretty quickly going to get as hot as the lava (or as close as oil can get). Water turns to stream and boils off, so kind of caps the temp under normal conditions.

Plus if they’re doing sampling, I doubt they want the sample covered in oil.

AFKBRBChocolate,

This answer I think is the closest. People can get better or worse over time and there are just so many factors. I’ve seen kind people go through horrible tragedies and become bitter and isolated. I’ve seen people who were cutthroat ladder climbers come to realize that the ladders aren’t going to mean anything after a certain point and their legacy is going to be kids who don’t want to spend time with them.

The one thing I’ll say that seems to be often true of men is that when they get older the testosterone is less intense and so life is a little less driven by it.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Okay, this brings up a question that's been in the back of my mind. I'm all in on federated communities, but I'm wondering how that architecture supports a massive event. Are there any instances that could support a giant number of concurrent users constantly refreshing a page? How much of the server burden is on the insurance hosting the community, and how much is on the instance that a visiting user is logged into? I'm not sure how it works.

AFKBRBChocolate,

And worth pointing out that Lemmy has a c/195 and a c/196.

I blocked both of them because I just don't want to see that many memes and /new was full of posts in those two communities. But clearly a lot of people are enjoying those.

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